Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

to support a new center for digital humanities

Vanderbilt Center for Digital Humanities

toward maintaining and strengthening the intellectual excellence of the University

Universities Program

to support a postdoctoral and faculty exchange program with Tennessee State University, Berea College, and Tougaloo College

HBCU Postdoctoral and Faculty Exchange

to support a study of equity, diversity, and inclusion efforts

Clearing the Ground In EDI: Philosophy, Race Theory, and the Diversity Industry

for development of programs in the arts and sciences

Institutional Advancement 

to help meet bridging needs for the advancement of younger faculty members in the humanities in the 1980's

1980s Fund

for use by its School of Medicine in support of research in reproductive biology

Reproductive Biology

in support of a seminar for graduate students preparing to write their dissertations

Dissertation Seminars

Institutional Advancement

to strengthen or revitalize areas of the arts and sciences and to encourage new approaches to graduate education

Fresh Combinations

to support a program of professional growth and development for faculty members teaching at the undergraduate level in surrounding institutions of higher education

Faculty Support

to provide additional opportunities for the appointment of young non-tenured postdoctoral scholars in the humanities

Postdoctoral Program

in support of seminars in literature and history for graduate students preparing to write their dissertations

to support the planning of an electronic publishing project devoted to the history and culture of the Ancient Near East

Ancient Near East

to endow a Professorship in the Humanities

Mellon Humanities Professorship

to support a design lab for designers, scholars, and activists informed by disability justice principles and arts and humanities methodologies with the goal of integrating Disability Studies and professional design fields

Labs for Liberation

toward support of the Educational Excellence Network

Educational Excellence Network

in support of young research faculty members and postdoctoral scientists at its Center for Population and Reproductive Biology Research

Population Centers Program 

matching endowment for faculty and program development in the humanities

Humanities Faculty Endowment

for use by its School of Medicine in providing teaching and research opportunities for young faculty members in the biomedical sciences

Medical Schools Program

in support of young research faculty members and postdoctoral scientists in reproductive biology at its Center for Population and Reproductive Biology Research

to provide fellowship funds for its Medical School in support of selected young teachers and researchers working in the basic medical sciences

to support a convening of researchers and practitioners to inform and coordinate a set of diverse national Creative Campus initiatives

Creative Campus Initiatives 

to provide opportunities for the professional growth of faculty members from neighboring colleges and universities

Regional Outreach Program

for use by its Medical School in providing teaching and research opportunities for young faculty members

for use by the Learning and Technology group of its School of Education in support of research on the introduction of the Fostering a Community of Learners curriculum into Nashville schools and the production of a multimedia book about the development of educational innovations and their diffusion

Literacy Program - Nashville Schools

to continue to support the Center for Digital Humanities in partnership with a select group of surrounding institutions

Center for Digital Humanities

to support the project, "Economics Goes to College"


Economics Goes to College 

Reproductive Biology [Orgebin-Crist]

in support of development of curricular units for use in Fostering a Community of Learners classrooms

Literacy Program - Curriculum Development

to support a workshop and reports on the technical, legal, and economic challenges of television news preservation

Television News Preservation Workshop

New Directions Fellowship (Igo)

to support implementation of "Wisdom of the Elders," an interdisciplinary public scholarship program

The Wisdom of the Elders

to support the Mellon Partners for Humanities Education Project

Mellon Partners for Humanities Education

toward construction of new classroom and teaching laboratory building

Construction of a New Classroom

to support the construction of a scholarly portal for ancient Near Eastern studies

Electronic Tools and Ancient Near Eastern Archives 

to support national initiatives that would improve the accessibility and preservation of library and archival collections

Committee on Coherence at Scale for Higher Education

to support a dissertation seminar in the humanities

Dissertation Seminars - The Souls of Brute and Stupid Things

to support a Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Cultures, entitled "The Age of Emancipation: Black Freedom in the Atlantic World"

Sawyer Seminars - The Age of Emancipation: Black Freedom in the Atlantic World

to support a Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Cultures entitled "When the Fringe Dwarfs the Center: Vernacular Islam Beyond the Arab World"

Sawyer Seminar: "When the Fringe Dwarfs the Center: Vernacular Islam Beyond the Arab World"

to support a New Directions Fellowship for Kimberly Welch

New Directions Fellowship: The Stability of Fortunes: Black Americans and Finance in the Nineteenth Century

to support a program at Princeton University Library to study acquisitions policy, retrain Library staff, and improve access to the Library's resources

University Library

in support of its University Professors Program

University Professors Program

to support the scholarly publication program of Indiana University Press

University Press Program

to assist the scholarly publication program of Yale University Press

to assist the scholarly publication program of Wesleyan University Press

Artists as Catalysts

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Beyond Incarceration

A side profile of a Black poet who is wearing glasses and a hat with a feather hat pin.

Borderlands Cultures

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Civic Engagement

A man in a brown jacket stands in front of blue bulletin board that is covered with papers and advertisements  

Evolving Higher Education

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Expanding Public Knowledge

An interior room filled with audio and video equipment 

Monuments and Memory

A multicolored painted totem pole set in front of a foggy forest landscape

Multivocality

Five people stand together in a group photo. They are laughing and smiling.

Power of the Word

Five colorful neon signs hang on the wall with messages that include, "Freedom cannot wait," "Brown owned," and "America is for Dreamers."

Public Places‚ Public Stories

A group of Indigenous Maskoke people stand and sit in the wooden frame of a structure in a woods

Puerto Rico and Its Diaspora

In a vertical image, a black leather vest is adorned with colorful pins across the front of it. Embroidery on the vest reads: "Felícitas "La Prieta" Méndez" 